The Cronin Group

Research in the Cronin Group is motivated by the fascination for complex chemical systems, and the desire to construct complex functional molecular architectures that are not based on biologically derived building blocks.


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Lee Cronin and Sara Walker discuss reconceptualising the origin of life in Science

In a recent issue of Science, Lee Cronin and Sara Walker discuss a new approach to understanding the transition from non-living to living systems. In the article, “Beyond Prebiotic Chemistry”, they put forward the case for expanding the search beyond the biochemistry of known life, focusing instead on the information and processes that can lead to complex systems. By challenging historical assumptions and taking a multidisciplinary approach, they suggest that researchers could develop a new type of complexity-first based model, expanding the types of chemistries to be explored, which would allow a comprehensive understanding of what it means for a system to be alive.

Link to Science article

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Prof. Leroy (Lee) Cronin

Prof Leroy (Lee) Cronin
Regius Chair of Chemistry
Advanced Research Centre (ARC)
Level 5, Digital Chemistry
University of Glasgow
11 Chapel Lane
Glasgow G11 6EW
Tel: +44 141 330 6650
Email: lee.cronin@glasgow.ac.uk

Latest Publications

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509. High-Nuclearity Polyoxometalate-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Oxidative Cleavage of C−C Bond

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508. Operational considerations for approximating molecular assembly by Fourier transform mass spectrometry

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507. Reaction blueprints and logical control flow for parallelized chiral synthesis in the Chemputer

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506. Experimentally measured assemblyindices are required to determine the threshold for life

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505. Algorithm-driven robotic discovery of polyoxometalate-scaffolding metal–organic frameworks

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504. Reaction: Programmable chemputable click chemistry

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503. Rethinking pharma and biotech outsourcing: A call for data security and supply chain resilience

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502. Delocalized, asynchronous, closed-loop discovery of organic laser emitters

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501. Investigating and Quantifying Molecular Complexity Using Assembly Theory and Spectroscopy

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500. Electron density-based GPT for optimization and suggestion of host–guest binders


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